My response to this excellent article on Opinion Journal.
OpinionJournal - Terrorism for Everyman Is America losing the will to fight

Exactly what do we expect to happen when we allow those whose agenda has always been to weaken America to define this war? By allow I don't mean to censor them, though some of the more radical voices certainly would have been censored in our earlier wars. No I simply mean answer them vigorously, challenge every single claim, discredit them, and laugh at them, constantly attack those within our society who believe that denigrating our military and hindering our war are legitimate acts of a "patriot".

You will say that we have been doing that and indeed conservative voices have been working overtime to answer the worst excesses. But what has the administration been doing? Almost nothing, unless you consider sheepish apologies for holding terrorists till the end of the war a viable defense.

As a Republican I spent a much larger percentage of my income than ever before on supporting Republicans in 2004. My reward has been to see the sort of cowardice displayed by people on 9/10/2001 when no one was willing to face the threats. I see Republicans allowing John Bolton to be held up, I see Republicans allowing Abu Garib to be made into the most ridiculous object of destruction by the left who have no stake in a successful war, and in short I see my money was wasted on a bunch of people who haven’t got any guts. I see senators who are willing to see policies and laws being left by the wayside all to save a friendship with the other side of the aisle. I spent my money to see us win the war. Senator I dont care about your desire for friends on the otherside of the aisle I care about winning this war. Please stop sending me requests for funding, the well has gone dry until you all grow some backbones. I spent my money because I have 3 children that I fear might live in a world far more terrible than I did and in large part it will be because good men did nothing.

To President Bush whoever counseled you to allow the ridiculous charges regarding the war by the MSM and left to go unanswered should be immediately fired. Instead of apologizing for doing the right thing you should have taken the American public into your confidence. You believed that actions spoke louder than words forgetting that words are a form of action as well, especially in your position. It is only you who can answer these critics.

To have allowed the Media to portray Saddam as having no substantial links to Al Queda was the worst mistake of your otherwise revolutionary administration. To believe that you had to have courtroom quality evidence before the American public would have understood the stakes in taking down Saddam was to vastly underestimate us. To believe that protecting intelligence sources was the end all be all was to forget that if you lose the America public you lose the war.

Finally it is worth reading again the words of President Roosevelt from Proclamation of an Unlimited National Emergency, May 27, 1941 who absolutely had a handle on affairs in a way that the Republicans can only dream of because they don’t have the stomach for this sort of fight.

Your Government has the right to expect of all citizens that they take part in the common work of our common defense -- take loyal part from this moment forward.

I have recently set up the machinery for civilian defense. It will rapidly organize, locality by locality. It will depend on the organized effort of men and women everywhere. All will have opportunities and responsibilities to fulfill.

Defense today means more than merely fighting. It means morale, civilian as well as military; it means using every available resource; it means enlarging every useful plant. It means the use of a greater American common sense in discarding rumor and distorted statement. It means recognizing, for what they are, racketeers and fifth columnists, who are the incendiary bombs in this country of the moment.

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